Danny

It all started when I was three years old and three feet tall. I spent hundreds of hours at Harris Hill Raceway riding with my dad, who is an instructor, a track junkie, and a Miata racer. As I grew taller, I drove from his lap while he worked the pedals. By the time I was tall enough to drive myself, I was 8 years old, and right then, racing became my life.

Dad spent his weekends in 2012 teaching me everything I needed to know to be safe on track: safety, awareness, and car control. We worked through Gymkhana, time trials, drifting, and rallycross for two years until I was ready for my first Miata race. A family friend modified the seat of our H2R Challenge Miata so it was safe for a 10-year-old, and my goal every weekend was simple: start at the back, work to the front with safe and clean passes.

Within about a year and a half, the plan paid off. After a stack of wins and podiums in the H2R Miata Challenge, I won the championship at age 13. It was my first club racing title.

With the championship under my belt, I felt the desire to step up. NASA's Spec Miata Series was exactly what I was looking for, and my dad and I, with help from our Spec Miata friends, started building my 1.6-liter car for the next season.

NASA Texas and its community were very welcoming. I started in HPDE 3 at MSR Houston, completed the NASA Comp School at Texas World Speedway on a Friday for my provisional license, and raced the next day. By my third weekend, I had my full competition license.

The goal that year was to win both the Teen Mazda Challenge and the NASA Texas Spec Miata Series for a chance at the Mazda Road to 24 Shootout. I won my first weekend at Motorsport Ranch Cresson, the first of many wins and podiums that season, and ended up taking both championships, plus NASA Texas Driver of the Year and Rookie of the Year.

After the regional title, I moved up to the SCCA Super Tour in Spec Miata to learn new tracks and step up the level of competition. Alongside that, I ran a number of ChampCar Endurance Series races. We had a strong run across both, with many successful weekends and wins along the way.

I also took my first job at Longhorn Racing Academy as Operations Manager and Ride-Along Driver. The job gave me regular seat time in supercars and a great look at the business side of motorsport. I kept racing the H2R Challenge as well, and in 2019 I won my second H2R championship.

After a few good seasons, with huge support from my parents, racing past Spec Miata simply became too expensive to keep progressing. So I pivoted to drifting. The goal was to learn a new skill and to better understand the business side of racing on a more affordable, high-exposure platform. I self-funded my first season in the Lone Star Drift TXSL series, and with help from my partners BC Racing, Auto Spec, and Dewitts Radiators, I built my first drift car, a C6 Corvette.

I spent the season learning and competing, and was lucky enough to be part of Drift Week 2020, a three-week trip across the country where we street-drove our race cars from Arizona to Florida and visited six different tracks along the way. The trip accelerated my development. In 2021, I picked up my first drift win at Lone Star Drift Round 1, and after a competitive season with a few more podiums, I finished as TXSL Vice Champion.

I learned a lot from drifting and really enjoyed the challenge, but after a couple of seasons I knew I had to get back to road racing. After working through the options, I traveled to Germany to meet teams and gather information. The first race I attended was the Prototype Cup Germany round at the Nürburgring, where I met Franz Konrad, the team boss of Konrad Motorsport.

Franz invited me to a test in the LMP3 at Lausitzring. With my experience limited to Miatas and drift cars, that was a monumental jump, but it was one I knew I had to take. With no prior experience in a car of that caliber and no track knowledge, I finished my first day six-tenths off Konrad's pro driver. After that test, I joined the final two rounds of Prototype Cup Germany with the team, and shortly after I signed a contract as a full-time Konrad Motorsport driver.

2023 was my first full season in Prototype Cup Germany. I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity Franz has given me. He provided the time and support I needed to develop and start fighting for titles. We were running the Ginetta G61-LT-P3 in PCG that year. There were a lot of strong performances on my side of the garage, but the car kept us on the back foot all season.

The bigger story that year was on the GT side. I'd never driven a GT3 in my life. I had eight practice laps in the car at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring before lining up for the race, then went straight into a double stint and was on pace with the pros. At 19 years old, that was my first 24-hour race.

Earlier in the season, I was running Permit-B cars in the Nürburgring Langstrecken Series, where I picked up a couple of wins, podiums, and pole positions. Those results earned me my Permit-A, which was what allowed me to step into a GT3 the same year.

2024 was the year a lot of things came together. We switched to the Ligier JSP320 LMP3 car, and the results started coming. I won the inaugural Prototype Winter Series with three race victories, then carried that form into Prototype Cup Germany.

PCG was a hard fought year. Almost everything worked against us, yet we still managed to hold the championship lead for nearly the entire season. A few unlucky races at the end ended up costing us the title, but we came away as Overall Vice Champion, nine points off the lead, and I won the Junior championship. On overlapping weekends I was also racing GT3 with Konrad Motorsport in the Lamborghini at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring and the Nürburgring Langstrecken Series, where we finished 3rd in Pro-Am at the N24.

2025 was a season of overall domination. I came back to defend the Prototype Winter Series and won seven of eight races, with the one non-win being a second place finish. The level across the entry was strong. We were out-performing the other LMP2 and LMP3 champions, and we were doing it against premier teams.

Alongside PTWS that winter, I joined Carrie Schreiner in the Konrad Motorsport Lamborghini GT3 for the GT Winter Series. My focus was on the LMP3 most of the weekend, but I'd jump out of the prototype, get fifteen minutes of practice in the GT3, then jump straight back to the LMP3 to keep that program going. On Sunday I'd hop back into the GT3 cold and go straight into the race to finish the endurance run with Carrie, often out-performing very seasoned GT3 drivers along the way.

In Prototype Cup Germany, I shared the year with my teammate Pavel Lefterov and we took the Overall Drivers' Championship. We were on the podium in nearly every race we finished and had the most wins in the championship.

On the GT side later in the year, I went back to the 24 Hours of Nürburgring with Konrad Motorsport in the Lamborghini GT3, and we finished 3rd in Pro-Am for the second year in a row.

Towards the end of the year, I made my debut in the Michelin Le Mans Cup with Gebhardt Motorsport. An unfortunate start to the race meant I never got behind the wheel, but it was the start of a new relationship.

In 2026 I signed with Gebhardt Motorsport to race with the German team on home soil, in the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge and the Airbnb Endurance Challenge.

The career goal hasn't changed since the very first lap at H2R. I want to win Le Mans. Every championship, every test, every season is another step toward Le Mans.